Constructive spirit
Subtitle: abstract art in South and North America, 1920s-50s
By: Mary Kate O'Hare ; with contributions by Karen A. Bearor ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bearor, Karen A. (Karen Anne), 1950-; Newark Museum; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Publisher: Newark Museum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark, NJ; San Francisco : Pomegranate
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780764952746
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., Feb. 17-May 23, 2010 and at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., June 26-Sept. 5, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Mary Sue Sweeney Price; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Mary Kate O'Hare; title: Constructive spirit : abstract art in South and North America, 1920s-50s / Mary Kate O'Hare; title: Joaquín Torres-García and American art : a lasting dialogue / Cecilia de Torres; title: Origin stories : native paradigms in American abstract art / Tricia Laughlin Bloom; title: Light play in abstract art and film / Karen A. Bearor; title: The masquerade of geometry : identity and abstraction in the Americas / Aliza Edelman; title: Monumental and ephemeral : the early São Paulo Bienais /  Adele Nelson.